www.ralfy.com has a re-review return to Whisky Review 3 with Whisky Review 356 – Aberlour A’bunadh Batch 42 (Re-reviewed)

The Talisker Port Ruighe has arrived – click the image to place your order!

The Whisky Shop is pleased to announce the arrival of a ground breaking new whisky – The Talisker Port Ruighe!

This is the first ever Talisker release which has been double matured in ruby port casks. This unique expression is named after the main trading port on Skye and combines Talisker’s powerful maritime character with succulent sweet notes of rich berry fruits for a superb contrasting taste experience.

Smooth and cooling at first; rapidly developing across the palate. Earthy South American cocoa notes – perhaps in a tarte au chocolat – are balanced by a fruity, cherry acidity; then a wave of softly drying sulphurous smoke and coal tar notes; and later, superb, chewy, brewers’ chocolate-malt. (Guinness malts?)
Very soft and cooling with water. Rounded and gently minty with resinous notes just ahead of a sublime, smoky, tarry development. Growing sweetly fiery and aromatic (burning beech wood logs at a Bavarian smokehouse).

Bottled at 45.8% volume. Tasting notes by Owen D.L. Barstow

Only £59.99 – Simply click here to buy

UK vlogger Joe Ellis a.k.a Whisky Wednesday reviews Aberlour 12 Year Old Single Malt.

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TWE Whisky Show 2013 – Balvenie Masterclass & Early-Bird Tickets

Organisation for TWE Whisky Show 2013 continues apace and tickets are selling even faster than we were hoping. We’ve got a couple of announcements that are going out today across our various show channels and thought we’d take the opportunity … Continue reading >>

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Whisky Ramblings Via Video #44

Mark Dermul, Belgian whisky blogger, puts two Auchentoshan Casks #803 head to head. They are both 31 years old! One is a 1966 bourbon hogshead, the other a 1973 sherry butt. Both are simply marvellous whisky’s from that Lowland distillery. Enjoy!

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Loch Fyne Whiskies Stocks, ‘Kilchoman Loch Gorm’

Kilchoman Loch Gorm

46%abv £55.90 inc vat £46.58 ex vat

“…The whisky from this distillery continues to impress, faultless again…”

Best regards,

Loch Fyne Whiskies

david@lfw.co.uk

www.ralfy.com talks advanced alcohol anecdotes with Whisky Review 355 (3/3) – Advanced Whisky Masterclass – Alcohol

April Top-ups: Twenty Somethings

Mouth-watering TWENTY Somethings waiting for YOU now…

1.168 Delightfully dulcet deliciosity
28YO Speyside Spey, £86.60
The palate was a delightfully dulcet deliciosity with wow-ously warming woody spices – we tasted dried cranberries, peach stone, roast pumpkin, irn-bru, carrot cake and teasingly tannic after-tingles of walnut, leather and wood. More

4.171 Perfumed and Sultry
21YO, Highland Island, £80.10
I’ve been transported to an Irish lochside’ one panellist exclaimed! Pebbles, rocks covered in dry seaweed, a fresh rural breeze and hay bails presented themselves on the nose, alongside black pepper, damp young wood and custard creams. More

26.92 Hard glazed pretzel sticks
28YO, Highland Northern, £91.90
This engaging sample from the distillery situated in Brora, tastes sweet like a bacon breakfast cake with maple syrup but at the same time salty like a Salzstange. More

31.26 BBQ smoke by a rolling sea
24YO, Highland Island, £70.70
Our noses picked up the sea in droplets of spray, mixed seafood barbecues and beach clean-up bonfires. We also found mineral notes (slate, plaster, Plasticine) butterscotch,  aniseed, salted crisps and cooked buttery pastry. More

29.121 Seafood party on the beach
20YO, Islay
The initial nose gave coal sacks, beach barbecue wood smoke, ash, Germolene, raisins, toffee and toasted nuts – before turning Oriental (curry plant leaves, lemongrass, coconut, cinnamon).  More

Find Your PERFECT Twenty Something..

The Scotch Malt Whisky Society, The Vaults, 87 Giles Street, Leith EH6 6BZ Contact: sales@smws.com or call 0131 555 2929 (Mon-Fri 9am-4.45pm). Visit the Society at http://www.smws.co.uk/memberships for your chance to join and to take advantage of their great offers.

Scotland – Single Malt Scotch

• 1992 Glen Grant 20 Year Old The Exclusive Malts Single Barrel Cask Strength Single Malt Whisky 750ml – 2 available ($129.99)

• 1976 Glenlivet 36 Year Old The Exclusive Malts Single Barrel Cask Strength Single Malt Whisky 750ml – 1 available ($269.99)

• 1988 Littlemill 24 Year Old The Exclusive Malts Single  Barrel Cask Strength Single Malt Whisky 750ml – 2 available ($149.99)

United States – Bourbon and Rye

• James E. Pepper 1776 Straight Rye Whiskey 750ml – 6 available  ($23.99)

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Scotland – Single Malt Scotch

• 2001 PC7 – Port Charlotte 7 year old Sin An Doigh Ileach Islay Single Malt Whisky 750ml – 5 available ($99.99)

• Tobermory 10 year old Isle of Mull Single Malt Whisky 750ml – 4 available ($55.99)

United States – Bourbon and Rye

• Cyrus Noble Kentucky Bourbon Whiskey 750ml – 12 available ($24.99)

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